No. 14: Essilor
Charenton-le-Pont, France
www.essilor.com
2016 RANK: 17
Revenue: $7,877,728,000
Fiscal year ending: Dec. 31, 2016
Employees: 64,000
R&D Spend: $236,940,800
Key Personnel:
Hubert Sagnières, chairman & CEO; Laurent Vacherot, president & COO; Jayanth Bhuvaraghan, chief mission officer; Jean Carrier-Guillomet, COO; Frédéric Mathieu, SVP, HR; Bernhard Nuesser, president, online; Géraldine Picaud, CFO; Paul Du Saillant, COO; Jeremy Teo, chief strategy officer; Éric Thoreux president, sun, readers & China
Description:
Essilor is a major ophthalmic and optics company, manufacturing a wide range of lenses to improve and protect eyesight. Flagship brands include Varilux, Crizal, Transitions, Eyezen, Xperio, Foster Grant, Bolon and Costa. Besides continuing to spend the equivalent of more than $200 million a year on research and development, Essilor also spent a similar amount on media last year to boost brand awareness among consumers.
Essilor is in the process of merging with Italian eyewear maker Luxottica in a deal worth €46 billion ($49 billion).
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Chris Newmarker says
Apologies. We had to fix a technical glitch with the Big 100 spreadsheet download. If you fill out the sign-up form now, you should get an email with a link to download the spreadsheet, instead of last year’s Big 100 edition.
Mark Russell Filaroski says
Chris, Thank you for the update. I just downloaded the Big 100.
Chris Newmarker says
Glad this helped, Mark.